Bas has had quite a number of downloads of his Direct2D build of Minefield, providing a lot of great feedback and bug reports. Unfortunately some of the bug reports are of the sort we feared, driver- or hardware-dependent. We're hoping to get Direct2D into mozilla-central as soon as possible, preffed off, for wider-spread testing.

Platform-specific Support Update

JS

Startup Performance

Rob Strong put up a detailed post about his startup improvements to the update service, the effect on mobile, and points out some other front-end services that could benefit from the same treatment.

Joel's static Firefox (sans nspr and nss) is working (bug 525013), and is showing ~10% improvement in startup time on Mac. He's moved on to improving code locality (bug 531406). However, time-ordering of symbols doesn't seem to improve the sequentiality of the page-ins by much, so maybe more improvements there. More data on the bug.

bug 519541: need to collect crash statistics from the plugin process; don't necessarily need the final UI, but stability statistics will be very important... ted do you have time?

Would like to get this turned on and an alpha/beta out by mid-December, though workweek activities may delay that.

Networking: jduell has channels working in a primitive way (not yet landed): beginning to ramp up other help (fred) to help hook up loadgroups and get fennec working. Honza posted initial patches for async redirect handling in necko: bug 513086

Roundtable

Blocklist reminder - channel all blocklist requests through the existing addons.mozilla.org:Blocklisting component. We prefer to block things at the plugin/addon level instead of the DLL level, so let's have everything go through the same channel for the time being.